The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 111

‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed to have no suspicion of me.

Who acts: Dark Man, man · What happens: not do, cast, seem, have, suspect · To what, where: eye, suspicion, me

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dark Man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
3	Dark	Dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Man	compound
4	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 did	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 cast	advmod
8	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eye	nmod:poss
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obj
11	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 Molly	case
12	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 seemed	xcomp
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 suspicion	det
20	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 suspicion	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not do	past	the Dark Man			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cast	past	the Dark Man not said here	man's eye	towards Molly; once property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards molly=Destination
3	seem	past	man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	have	to-infinitive	man not said here	no suspicion of me		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient
5	suspect			me		nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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